Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-31
SECTIONAL ANIMOSITY.
Governor Gordon Tells the Ohio Peo-
pie Whs 1t is That Is Keeping
Alive the Old Fight
The South Never Wished to Destroy the
Union 3ho Is q sentimentalist-0 ues-
tions Affecting the People.

PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, Oct so General
Gordon of Georgia spoke here last nigh.
TO large audience. He referred to the
charge that he was g Kuklux, made by
the republican press snd denied it fully,
asserting that he never at any time fol-
lowing the war belonged to any order
except one formed for the maintenance Of
law and order, and that he had not at any
time been a member OF any secret
society. He then spoke OF the charges
of sentimentalism made by the CONNER
cial-Gszette, and acknowledged the
impeachment and argued that ell men
actueted by desire to promote their
countrY's welfare were sentimeutalistlc.
He then launched ont on his main ad-
dress by the statement that he would
speak only of questions affecting the peo-
pie, both north and south, and second,
that he desired to be questioned fully and
freely on any p int upon which the audi-
snce desired to be informed. In referring
to the late war, the General said
that at no time had the south
desired to destroy the Union; that she
had furnished too much OF Talor
and territory and blood toward its forms
Lion anu upbuilding to wish 1t destroyed
that the war was only the out-growth OF
the construction Of the constitution.
which differed from that Of the people OF
the north. The sections he compared TO
two boys, Johnnie and Yenk, who fell out
over matter that could not
be peaceably adjusted and that
Johnnie having got the worst
of the SIGHT had been invited home by
Yank. Thst invitation was accepted and
Johnnie was back to stay. In substantla-
ton OF this he said the people OF the south
would not have the verdict changed If
they could, that he had SO expressed him
self st the reunion of Confederate SOL
diers, and in other places, and that it but
re-echoed the sentiment of his country
men. The light vote in his state in the
presidential election he explained by
saying the colored people, find
ing they had been robbed by
the carpetbsg element after the wsr
would no longer affiliate with the Repu5
icaD party in the presidential election,
and the mass of them, not caring to vote
with the Democrats, had simply refrained |
rom voting at all. In temperance, law |
md other questions of interest, he said a |
ull vote OF the colored and white people !
vas cast without interference or re-
traint, and that on the lat
er question the colored people had |
.lways carried that state against the |
financial interest Of the whites. The |
Governor spoke st some length On the
condition OF the colored people Of the |
outh now as compared with the years
GLOWING the war, when they were gov
rned by sc-caIled Republicans, and
howed statistics that the colored people !
lad increased in wealth three fold under
Democratic rule; that their educational
ABILITIES which were paid for out Of taxes
collected from the whites had increased |
'ver twenty fold, and that they
we're ss people prosperous and coz.
ented; fully protected in all their rights
Ie condemned very seriously the course
+ certain northern Republicans in keep
ne alive the feelings Of sectional anirn0s-
ty, aud charged that in such & course lay |
ne greatest danger to our republic, and
losed with sn exhortatiOn to the people |
o forget the passions OF the past and
mite in q common purpose to promote |
he prosperity OF the country.